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The Hard Skills

The Hard Skills

De: Dr. Mira Brancu
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Welcome to “The Hard Skills” podcast, a practical and research-driven show that explores the core leadership skills needed to fuel leadership to activate real change, such as creating inclusive and healthy workplaces.

Through expert interviews and live coaching calls, we challenge the notion of "soft skills," question long-held but inaccurate leadership development beliefs, and offer real, practical solutions for complex leadership challenges.

Hosted by Dr. Mira Brancu, a clinical and organizational development psychologist with extensive leadership experience, we’ll delve into topics of leadership identity, leading with uncertainty, navigating workplace politics, and creating critical organizational change.

This podcast will especially appeal to high-achieving leaders in healthcare, tech, and academic, industries. Whether you're seeking personal growth, looking to enhance your leadership abilities, or interested in Dr. Brancu's coaching services and membership community, join us as we unravel the complexities of leadership and inspire you to embrace the hard skills.


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  • Why Endurance Matters in Today's Leadership
    May 20 2025

    Stress and burnout are rampant in today's incredibly uncertain and constantly changing business landscape. How can leaders protect themselves and continue to thrive in the face of adversity? In this episode, you will learn the Endurance Leader four-part framework to help you build your mental, physical, and interpersonal longevity, and get practical tips to help you embed these philosophies and practices into your leadership approach.

    Leaders often face overwhelming demands in fast-paced environments. As a consultant and coach, Dr. Ann Bowers-Evangelista noticed a recurring pattern: leaders struggling to sustain their energy and purpose while navigating relentless pressure. Yet, they need to stay motivated, inspired, and productive in their leadership, becuse this has a trickle-down effect on their teams.

    Her Endurance Leader framework offers a way to strategically plan for sustainable success by blendiung resilience, self-awareness, and long-term strategies to help leaders thrive without compromising their well-being. She will share how to develop and implement this plan, prepare to face inevitable obstacles, and remain focused, adaptable, and resilient to drive meaningful results over time.


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    ABOUT OUR GUEST:


    Dr. Ann Bowers-Evangelista is a master leadership psychologist, with almost 30 years of consulting and coaching with organizations of all sizes and complexities. As a clinical psychologist with an MBA and also an Ironman triathlete, Ann brings her range of expertise to help her clients develop more satisfying, meaningful, and productive leadership. Her first book, The Endurance Leader (released last November) leverages the principles of endurance athletes to help leaders develop a long-term approach to leadership. She is the founder and President of Llumos, LLC and The Endurance Leader, LLC.


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    IF YOU ENJOYED THIS EPISODE, CAN I ASK A FAVOR?

    We do not receive any funding or sponsorship for this podcast. If you learned something and feel others could also benefit, please leave a positive review. Every review helps amplify our work and visibility. This is especially helpful for small women-owned boot-strapped businesses. Simply go to the bottom of the Apple Podcast page to enter a review. Thank you!


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    LINKS MENTIONED IN EPISODE:

    https://www.llumos.com

    https://www.theenduranceleader.com

    www.gotowerscope.com

    #theenduranceleader

    #leadershipignited

    #mission

    #mentaltoughness

    #pacing

    #TheHardSkills


    Tune in for this empowering conversation at TalkRadio.nyc

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  • How to Mitigate, Prepare, Respond, and Recover from Crisis, with Stephanie Craig
    May 6 2025

    How can we address and recover from crisis? We must first learn to spot it well before it gets out of hand, then have the right resources to recover.


    WHAT YOU WILL LEARN:

    Recognizing that crisis can happen at any time and preparing for it is a sign of sophisticated leadership. In this episode you will learn:

    - The most common types of crises to land on the doorsteps of leaders -- and how to spot and mitigate them,

    - The role effective leaders play in connecting employees, clients, and stakeholders in a crisis,

    - The vital importance of creating a crisis readiness program that permeates the entire corporate culture.


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    ABOUT OUR GUEST:

    Stephanie Craig has built her reputation as a crisis expert by guiding some of the world’s most prominent people and organizations through their most trying moments. Combining her deep experience in politics, media and business, she mitigates crises, repairs reputations and inoculates against future reputation damage. In her career, Stephanie has guided media organizations, Fortune 50 tech companies and members of the House and Senate in the United States and Canada through some of their most trying days. She sharpened her crisis skills on several campaigns including three presidentials. She is a battleground specialist and likely the only person to have worked in both houses on Capitol Hill and Parliament Hill. Stephanie has counted former First Lady Rosalynn Carter, the mayor of the nation’s 10th largest city and some of the most notable global brands as clients. When not handling crises, Stephanie supports causes she cares about by helping to establish the groundbreaking group — I Am ALS and chairing the Force to End Harassment in Advocacy as an effort during the #Metoo movement.


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    IF YOU ENJOYED THIS EPISODE, CAN I ASK A FAVOR?

    We do not receive any funding or sponsorship for this podcast. If you learned something and feel others could also benefit, please leave a positive review. Every review helps amplify our work and visibility. This is especially helpful for small women-owned boot-strapped businesses. Simply go to the bottom of the Apple Podcast page to enter a review. Thank you!


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    LINKS MENTIONED IN EPISODE:

    www.gotowerscope.com

    https://www.linkedin.com/in/craigstephanie/

    https://kith.co


    https://www.linkedin.com/in/craigstephanie/

    https://kith.co


    #CrisisManagement #TheHardSkills #Leadership


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  • The Structures that Shape Workplace Culture and Safety, with Dr. Gabriela Alcalde
    Apr 29 2025

    How can we create healthy workplaces? Sometimes the best way to learn is through other people's stories about how they navigated organizational culture, structures, and leadership approaches that inspire safer and more creative workplaces.


    WHAT YOU WILL LEARN:

    In her book, What Your Comfort Costs Us, Dr. Gabriela Alcalde uses storytelling to invite us to learn about the experiences of women of color leaders in the workplace and how they are shifting workplace cultures to benefit everyone. We'll discuss leadership, power, and reimagining workplaces that could work for all.


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    ABOUT OUR GUEST:

    Born in Lima, Peru, Dr. Alcalde is a creative, anti-supremacist leader with experience in the philanthropic, academic, governmental, nonprofit, and grassroots sectors. She writes and speaks locally, nationally, and internationally about shifting the philanthropic and nonprofit sectors, culture change, racial justice, and leadership of women of color. She earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of Louisville, a master’s in public health from Boston University, and a doctorate in global public health from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. What Your Comfort Costs Us is her first book.

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    IF YOU ENJOYED THIS EPISODE, CAN I ASK A FAVOR?

    We do not receive any funding or sponsorship for this podcast. If you learned something and feel others could also benefit, please leave a positive review. Every review helps amplify our work and visibility. This is especially helpful for small women-owned boot-strapped businesses. Simply go to the bottom of the Apple Podcast page to enter a review. Thank you!


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    LINKS MENTIONED IN EPISODE:

    www.mgalcalde.com

    https://linktr.ee/mgalcalde

    www.gotowerscope.com


    #yourcomfortcosts #culturechange #workplace #leadership #TheHardSkills

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